How to change the default files.

[Di Su]

I'm new to hledger. I'm using it on windows 11.

The default accounting data is a journal file C:\Users\su\.hledger.journal  after typing hledger add.  And I tried to change it to another files by powershell typing  SETX LEDGER_FILE "D:\documents\hledger_files\finance\2025.journal".according to this document hledger manual (1.50) - hledger.  And typing  $env:LEDGER_FILE in powershell, It appears D:\documents\hledger_files\finance\2025.journal correctly. But using hledger files, the output is still C:\Users\su\.hledger.journal.

Could any one help?

[Simon Michael]

Hi,

Is anything different if you run it in a new powershell window ?

Is your user account a windows administrator , or not ?

If you like, share the output of 'hledger setup' ?

The linked java.com page talks about an  Environment Variables setting - does that exist/work on windows 11 ?

[Simon Michael]

For the record, we figured this out: `hledger files` does not show the
$LEDGER_FILE if that file does not yet exist. (`hledger setup` does.)
I'll improve this.